Folding shelf for paper show-boxes



(No Model.)

0. ARNOLD.

FOLDING SHELF FOR PAPER SHOW BOXES. No. 541,060. Patented June 18, 1895.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 541,060, dated June 18, 1895.

Application filed August 18, 1894:, SerialNmfiZOfiBl. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES ARNOLD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Austin, in the county of Cook and State my folding shelves in position in a show-box and one bottle on a shelf. Fig. 2 is aperspective View of the cover to the box removed; Fig. 3, an enlarged plan of Fig. 1, with the shelves folded against the back of the box and a bottle-compartment placed in the box in front of the shelves; Fig. 4, a transverse section of Fig. 3 on the center line J.

A difficulty heretofore has existed in shipping show boxes with their contents, in that the covers were required to be deeper than the bed of the box, to cover the articles projecting above the shelves, and then there was a-further difficulty in securing the bottles or other articles within the box. I overcome these difficulties as follows: G, A, B, G, D, Figs. 1, 3 and 4, represent the back, front, ends and bottom of the body of the box which is constructed by the means now employed in the manufacture of the ordinary show box. The extreme height of the box is but little more than the height of the bottles which are to be shown and a removable partitioned filler which supports the articles for shipment, holds the folded shelves upright to the back of the box.

1 do not claim folding shelves to be new in paper boxes, but the construction of the shelves andthe means for jointing them to the back of the box, and the means for disposing of them for the shipment of articles to be shown, I claim to have invented.

lwo shelves F, F with front supportsE, E are formed to fold against the back A of the box; and in the construction the shelves are formed of suitably covered straw board. The back shelf F is jointed at d, to a board b, and the board I) is by suitable means secured to theinside of the back A. The front edge of the shelf F is jointed to a front support E at o, and the support E, at f, is jointed to the back edge of shelf F; and shelf F is jointed at e to a front support E. The support E is'jointed to a connecting board i at h, and the board dis jointed to a board 9 which is attached to the box at a. This construction permits the shelves to occupy the positions shown at Fig. 1, and the bottom G, of the box serving the purpose of a shelf.

K, K, J, J, J, represent compartments formed not unlike the fillers to egg carriers, being constructed of straw board or card board halved together.

When the show box and contents are to be shipped the shelves are folded against the back A, and the compartments-are placed in position as shown at Figs. 3 and 4, the bottles placed therein and packed with paper between them and the cover D.

In the equivalent construction M, represents the box and O, U, and N, T, represent two folding shelves with joint connections 8,

cles, the soap is to be placed on the top of the folded shelves and also packed with paper within the cover which is to be not unlike the cover D.

It is evident that by enlarging the box additional shelves can-be constructed and employed within the scope of invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States V The combination with a paper box consisting of a high back,low front, and inclined ends, of folding internal shelves jointed to the back and bottom of the box, and a jointed strip connecting with back of the box and with the front of the lower shelf and folding flat on the bottom of the, box, and the shelves extending over the strip and the folded shelves lying against the back of the box, and a partitioned filler inserted in the box and bearing against the folding shelves as and for the purpose specified and shown.

CHARLES ARNOLD. 

